Dear all,

here is a summary of the MC group meeting on 13. March 2008.

* Announcements
  Terascale Alliance has own EVO community now: Terascale 
  	Book now all meetings in this community.
  NAF news: own group on afs:  /afs/desy.de/group/alliance/mcg
  DESY fellowships: 
  - a few people are interested joining as a post-doc MC group 
  - ask for support in fellowship program ?
  MC position:
  DESY directorate has now agreed to advertise the MC position
  GENSER 
  - Mikhail Kirsanov ask for help 
  - implement additional test into GENSER 
  - who can and will join ?
  
  MC school news: we have now 81 registrations
  
* Summary report PDF4LHC workshop at CERN (K.Kutak)
  Interesting approaches to determine PDFs using neural networks
  Community is interested in PDF4MC approach, presented by K. Kutak  
  Web address for workshop:
  http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=27439 
  
* Preparation of MC school
  Now 81 participants
  school will be EVO and Video recorded
  - video will be in mp4 
  Planning for exercises starts (detailed planning next meeting)
  GENSER: 
  - build and link executable using GENSER libs 
  - investigate heavy quark (top) production 
  - run generator and produce ROOT file 
  - plot average charged multiplicity, average pt 
  - plot pt and eta of heavy quark 
  - calculate and plot pt of heavy quark pair 
  - switch on/off: IPS, FPS 
  - plot pt and eta of Higgs, W/Z 
  - switch on/off: IPS, FPS 
  RIVET: 
  - compare HQ predictions with measurement at TeVatron
  user accounts on NAF
  
* GENSER installation at DESY
  Serguei has managed to install all GENSER libraries at DESY (thanks ...)
  /afs/desy.de/group/alliance/mcg/public/
  Opportunity for even HERA experiments to use GENSER installation  
  A. Borissov volunteered to test GENSER
  
* AOB
  prepare for MC school at next meeting 
  

cheers

Hannes